κλόνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Usually derived from κέλομαι (kélomai, “to urge, exhort”). Beekes instead thinks it’s a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κλόνος • (klónos) m (genitive κλόνου); second declension

  1. confused motion, turmoil, battle-rout
  2. trembling, confusion, agitation
  3. (in physiological sense) agitation, of wind in the bowels
  4. (of the body) shaking, agitation, contraction

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κλόνος; τοῦ κλόνου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κλόνος
ho klónos		 τὼ κλόνω
tṑ klónō		 οἱ κλόνοι
hoi klónoi
Genitive τοῦ κλόνου
toû klónou		 τοῖν κλόνοιν
toîn klónoin		 τῶν κλόνων
tôn klónōn
Dative τῷ κλόνῳ
tôi klónōi		 τοῖν κλόνοιν
toîn klónoin		 τοῖς κλόνοις
toîs klónois
Accusative τὸν κλόνον
tòn klónon		 τὼ κλόνω
tṑ klónō		 τοὺς κλόνους
toùs klónous
Vocative κλόνε
klóne		 κλόνω
klónō		 κλόνοι
klónoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • ἄκλονος (áklonos)
  • κεραυνοκλόνος (keraunoklónos)
  • κλονέω (klonéō)
  • κλόνησις (klónēsis)
  • κλονόεις (klonóeis)
  • κλονοκάρδιος (klonokárdios)
  • κλονώδης (klonṓdēs)

Descendants
  • → English: clonus

Further reading
  • “κλόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κλόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κλόνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κλόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κλόνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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